Christian Cox, E-Sales & Marketing Director

At the start of Christian’s career, property search and sales involved physically walking the streets meeting buyers and viewing properties. Nowadays, Christian is more often found drinking green tea in Jusu, laptop open, holding court on a zoom call or searching aggregator sites for ‘deals’ or sunning himself on Palma’s Paseo Maritimo with his earbuds in viewing properties on facetime.

Christian does daily trawls through the aggregator sites for those tired or difficult development opportunities that others have overlooked; he talks to agents hourly, many of whom were trained by him all those years ago; and he creates our legendary Instagram posts usually with a classic tune thrown in. Often Ana’s research in to the history of the buildings and the people that lived in them feeds perfectly in to Christian’s digital marketing content – who can resist trying to answer his polls on ‘Which famous person lived here?’ or ‘Why do the joists always run front to back on Victorian properties?’

Christian is not one for sitting still - West 11 does have a physical office but Christian is rarely to be found in it.

Ana Atkinson, Creative Director

Buildings and how people live and lived in them is Ana’s passion. Designing floor layouts for modern living in buildings built 150 years ago is a challenge that she embraces daily.

On a recent project Ana researched the history of the street and found that in the 1881 census: “Twenty-one of these houses were in substantially normal occupation on the night of the census, and their heads of household included two major-generals, two civil engineers, and one East India broker, shipowner, accountant, wine merchant and lime merchant. There were also five female heads of household, all living on income from dividends, annuities or landed property. The average number of residents in each house was just over nine, of whom  nearly five were servants”. Ana’s layout sees these servants quarters become principal bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms and sumptuous dressing rooms.

Ana works largely at her screen – designing floor layouts; researching interiors trends and sourcing materials. Physical site visits are less crucial nowadays as she is more often seen facetiming her project manager for weekly site catch ups or whats’apping for measurements and install details.